Students Reflect on Fatigue, Tiredness, and Self-care

Wilderness, surrender, resistance, temptation—Lent invites us into difficult, weighty categories, and wholehearted, full-bodied engagement of them comes at a cost. How can we continue pursuing calling and stepping into the deep needs of the world, without being overwhelmed by fatigue or burnout?

Since graduate students nearing the end of a term definitely know something of fatigue, we found a few after class and asked them about what distinguishes fatigue from day-to-day tiredness, and how they care for themselves in the midst of it all.